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Republican Gov. John Kasich’s budget update includes a tax cut aimed at the top income earners in Ohio. But it also includes some measures designed to help the stateâ€™s poorest people, and those items are getting blasted as well as praised.

As it stands, about 1.3 million people across the country could get cut off at the end of the month.

8:24AM

December 12, 2013

Congress is on its way to a budget deal a couple weeks ahead of the January 1 deadline. But the deal doesnâ€™t include extending emergency unemployment benefits. That means 40,000 Ohioans could see their payments end this month.

The resolution passed in Ohio, which is similar to ones passed in 19 other states, calls for Congress to come up with an amendment requiring a balanced federal budget, or to allow the states to convene a Constitutional convention.

8:02AM

November26, 2013

Ohio leaders left the Statehouse Monday to travel west to Lima to to sign a resolution calling for a federal balanced budget amendment.

Without a fix, State Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections Director Gary Mohr warns, the state could need another prison starting in 2017.

3:09PM

October22, 2013

Ohio’s prison system has faced a glut of bad news in recent months, from inmate suicides to four homicides in a single prison in about a year, but long-term population growth trends are causing officials the most headaches.

â€œWill it be a grand bargain? Probably not. Can it be a bargain thatâ€™s good for the American people? Yes,â€ says Portman.

8:51AM

October 18, 2013

The government shutdown is over after lawmakers agreed to raise the countryâ€™s debt limitâ€¦until January 15th. Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senator is looking to the next round of negotiations with optimism.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed Fitzgerald says state limits on abortions and funding cuts to Planned Parenthood may be subject to legal challenges.

1:29PM

July11, 2013

Opponents of abortion-related limits inserted into Ohio’s state budget are exploring legal challenges and the possibility of forcing lawmakers to vote again on the provisions, the Democratic challenger to Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Thursday.